[AT] "diesel" engines running backward

[Larry D Goss]

Billy Vukovich!  Now THERE was a driver.  I have a metal scale model Indy 
car patterned after the style of Offenhauser-powered vehicle that was common 
during his racing days.

BTW, Forty Acres and a Fool was a fun read.  There were a lot of experiences 
in it that I could relate to because of growing up on one of those aliquots. 
A lot has changed at the home place.  All that's left of the original farm 
land is the West half of the NW quarter of the NW quarter where I was born. 
The rest of the section has been converted into a giant industrial complex.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "captneb" <captneb at agristar.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] "diesel" engines running backward


> Was this the Field Marshall, or something like that? A guy here in town 
> has
> one.  It is worth the price of admission to watch him start it.  My cousin
> Billy Vukovich ("The Mad Russian") once STOPPED his vehicle by emptying 
> his
> revolver into it.  He was the one who coined the phrase when asked what it
> takes to win at Indy, "Turn left."
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] "diesel" engines running backward
>
>
>> Speaking of which, I worked with a man whose family still owned a farm
>> in India. He saw an image of a Field Marshal one cylinder diesel tractor
>> on a Web page on my PC and said that his family still farmed with one.
>> It was stared with a blank shotgun shell, and they had to make sure what
>> the position of the piston when starting, or it would start running
>> backwards. And you didn't know it was running backwards until the
>> operator tried to go forward. I don't know if all that was true or not,
>> but that is what he claimed.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> dfolske at nccray.net wrote:
>> > I wish my 88 had a problem with the fuel tank filling up when running:)
>> >
>> > On 6 Feb 2007 at 7:32, captneb wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>Lunchbox, a friend of mine, has an Oliver 88 that occasionally runs
>> >>backwards.  He says the big problem is the fuel tank then filling up 
>> >>and
>> >>overflowing.
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>> -- 
>> Mike Sloane
>> Allamuchy NJ
>> <mikesloane at verizon.net>
>> Website: <www.geocities.com/mikesloane>
>> Images: <www.fotki.com/mikesloane>
>>
>> It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter
>> than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
>> -- Molly Ivins 1944-2007
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